For years I’ve been carting around an old cookie tin filled with rubber stamps I’ve been collecting for more than 30 years, and I finally took it off the shelf today to see what was inside, newly-equipped with an ink pad from Denis Office Supplies.

Collage of all of my rubbers stamps, in red ink, on a white piece of letter-sized paper.

I wonder if it’s still possible to send 1st, 2nd and 3rd class mail. I wonder why I have a rubber stamp of AMBER.

Peter Rukavina

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Submitted by Olle Jonsson on

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Amber in uppercase has the tone of an operation, a covert note brazenly stamped on an envelope.

If you're looking for more inspiration for stamps w.r.t. operational code names, here's a sampling from a Düsseldorf Kunsthalle exhibit: https://www.flickr.com/search/?sort=date-taken-desc&safe_search=1&tags=kunsthalle&user_id=96947578%40N00&view_all=1 It was a giant wall filled with word combinations suitably meaningless for operation code names.

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